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Skokie appeals board directs counsel to draft order reversing zoning administrator on gravel alley at 6900 LeClaire Ave.
Summary
The Zoning Board of Appeals voted to direct corporation counsel to prepare an order reversing the zoning administrator’s interpretation that a gravel alley at 6900 LeClaire Avenue is an "improved alley." The draft order will return for a final board vote on Jan. 21.
The Village of Skokie Zoning Board of Appeals on Jan. 7 directed corporation counsel to prepare a draft order reversing the zoning administrator’s interpretation that the alley behind 6900 LeClaire Avenue is an "improved alley," a determination the board will vote on at its Jan. 21 meeting.
The dispute centered on how to read the zoning code’s parking/driveway provision — specifically section 118212(c)(6) of the Skokie zoning chapter — which allows off-street parking access from a public "improved alley" and prohibits curb cuts where a public improved alley exists. Appellant counsel Rolando Acosta argued that "an alley that is graveled with some vegetation in it is not improved," urging the board to adopt an ordinary-language meaning that would treat gravel alleys with vegetation as unimproved.
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